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The Godly Man's Picture
The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pencil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...The godly mans picture drawn with a scripture-pensil, or, Some characteristical notes of a man that shall go to heaven by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But there is a Preternatural heat, something looking like zeal, which is not, a Comet looks like a Star: I shall therefore show some differences between a true and a false zeal.
But there is a Praeternatural heat, something looking like zeal, which is not, a Comet looks like a Star: I shall therefore show some differences between a true and a false zeal.
1 A false zeal is a blind zeal, Rom. 10. 2. They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge; this is not the fire of the spirit, but wild-fire. The Athenians were very devout ⟨p. 156⟩and zealous, but they knew not for what, Acts 17. 23. I found an Altar with this Inscription, [Greek or Hebrew], To the unknown God, Thus the Papists are zealous in their way, but they have taken away the key of knowledge.
1 A false zeal is a blinde zeal, Rom. 10. 2. They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge; this is not the fire of the spirit, but wild-fire. The Athenians were very devout ⟨p. 156⟩and zealous, but they knew not for what, Acts 17. 23. I found an Altar with this Inscription, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, To the unknown God, Thus the Papists are zealous in their way, but they have taken away the key of knowledge.